Happy Holidays...

Happy Holidays...I keep hearing this song at the mall. Although I’ve been superlazy and didn’t bake as much as I had planned, I did manage to bake a little to share with friends. Here’s what I did manage to whip up...

Espresso Chocolate chip cookies with pecans – I made seven batches of these cookies as I received an order for 30 boxes of these. After so many batches, I know I perfected them. However I think I had enough of them with all the testing and all.

Peanut Butter cookies – My sis made this one when we met up at my place for holiday baking session. We didn’t get too much done with lunch out in the big snowstorm and the power outage.

Ruelach – I’ve always wanted to make it but never got around to it. They’re tasty although not very pretty. I had some trouble rolling it up tightly.

Chocolate Macs with Nutella Ganache – I finally attempted the Italian meringue method of working with the egg whites. It was pretty simple, but my macs didn’t turn out that well. It looks really nice but there’s a big air pocket when you bit in.

Pink Macs with dark chocolate raspberry ganache – I used French meringue method for making the batter. I think it was a little runny so I ended up with an assortment of sizes of pink macarons. Although it’s not a puffy as the chocolate macs, they were chewy although a little sweet. For the ganache, I mixed in raspberry puree to dark chocolate and cream. Half the batch was unstrained puree while I strained the other half. I think I prefer the texture of the raspberry seeds in the ganache.


Chocolate black pepper icebox – I wanted to add some sort of spice into my cookie assortment and didn’t want to run to the store so I made this. It was very easy to make...I would add a little more pepper next time as I couldn’t really taste it.

Cranberry Pistachio Icebox – it’s the perfect Christmas cookie as it’s speckled red cranberries and green pistachios.


Packed up and ready to go.